THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
Photograph by Robert K. Bonine
A RICE FIELD ON THE ISLAND OF OAHU
In the right background rises the "Punchbowl," crater of an extinct volcano in the center
of Honolulu. It has been proposed recently to erect in this' crater a huge modern athletic
stadium, having a seating capacity of 95,ooo. A football gridiron, baseball diamond, cinder
paths for track meets, and a number of tennis courts will be constructed on the floor of the bowl.
mate entrance of the Territory of Hawaii
as an integral part of the United States.
ANNEXATION A BOON BOTH TO THE UNITED
STATES AND HAWAII
The annexation of the Hawaiian Islands
by the United States has turned out to be
as good a bargain for the entire United
States as it has proved for the Islands
themselves.
Great as is the value of Hawaii as the
first line of America's military and health
defense in the Pacific, these advantages
are ours without the net expenditure of a
single dollar of mainland money.
The people of Hawaii not only pay for
the operation of their own government,
but in addition contribute largely to the
National Treasury at Washington to re
imburse it for present-day expenditures
for the Territory's defense.
In the fiscal year of 1921 the people of
the Territory of Hawaii paid into the Fed
eral Treasury, in customs duties, income
taxes, and internal revenue taxes, a sum
in excess of $22,000,000; in 1922 they
paid more than $16,500,000. The cost of
maintaining the customhouses, the Fed
eral courts, the postal establishment, and
other national functions in the Islands
represents a very small fraction of these
Federal taxes remitted by the Territory
to Washington.
Easily, the net payments into the Fed
eral Treasury at Washington in 1921 and
in 1922 were much more than the outlay
in recent years for fortifications and
naval-base improvement, which fortifica
tions, be it remembered, are primarily for
the benefit of the whole United States.
Indeed, these payments go far toward
covering also the entire cost of main-
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